Thread:SillyPotato/@comment-1164563-20190430000439/@comment-30131938-20190501000515

I would actually have to agree with DementedP. That's exactly everyithing that happened. I know the episode doesn't spoonfeed the info, but story writing logic dictates Anthony is neither Vergil nor Dante.

The whole Dante theory keeps hinging on the box, when Dante trying to guess the box's location (hidden by a kid he mentions, indicating it's easy for anyone to find he thinks. CMON guys give Dante some credit, and as if the anime wasn't romantic about his detective skills, as if in-game we don't guess locations of hidden items) was how Ernest's wife deduced he wasn't the real Anthony (story flow and logic, Dante wasn't pretending he's trying to guess where it is so the woman would think he's not Anthony, so she could make him agree to pretend to be Anthony). Its got romantic anime writing written all over the episode. It's not some weird conspiracy that he was doing quadruple coverups. Do you even realize how silly that sounds writing-wise? The whole argument to say Anthony's Dante sounds like it's being written up by Anthony's friend. Like you guys just don't wanna listen to Dante at all? And at the end of the story he just gave up telling the truth and decided to let things be because Ernest wouldn't listen at all, and Ernest even summoned a demon because that's how far into his own world he is.

Also one of the main sticking points, when the teacher asks about his mother, Dante talks about his real mother, and how she's dead. Yknow how the story goes, Eva died when the demons attacked. So Anthony's mother can't be Eva. Anthony's mother survived with him and was there to be accused and treated badly by the surviving townspeople. I don't think it's in Dante's personality to forget a supposed "mother" figure. Even if she just adopted him as Tony. No, that's just not in his character when he carries Eva's picture with him at all times. Also if you insist this "mother" is Eva, then why would Dante be called Tony? When Dante went by his real name when she was still alive???

Also at the end of the day, with DMCV existing, it chose the "this isn't Dante" side of the story, when Dante's never been shown to have a 2nd childhood since his mother's death and really just ran around killing demons as Tony Redgrave (which he says has nothing to do with this Anthony).

And if we all still disagree, I suppose the answer to this mystery will always be labelled as speculation rather than fact.